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TIL Japan's aging demographic problem is so bad the country sells more adult diapers than baby ones

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wL5pW TIL that in 2013 Mark Zuckerberg spent $30 million buying 4 neighboring houses to ensure his privacy
9wDrD TIL there's a degenerative brain disorder called fatal familial insomnia (FFI) that causes a person to lose the ability to sleep and eventually die
Lk6NQ TIL that the two sons of Archduke Franz Ferdinand were sent to Dachau and made to clean toilets for objecting to Hitler’s annexation of Austria
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AOw4 TIL of the “Night-Witches,” a Russian regiment of all-female aviators during WWII. Despite only flying slow, obsolete planes, the regiment is said to have dropped over 3,000 tons of bombs and each pilot to have flown over 1,000 missions.